1542 Episodes

  1. [encore] 772: On Friendship

    Published: 1/4/2023

  2. [encore] 513: Romantics

    Published: 1/3/2023

  3. [encore] 769: Meeting at an Airport

    Published: 1/2/2023

  4. [encore] 739: Cherry Blossoms

    Published: 12/30/2022

  5. [encore] 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood

    Published: 12/29/2022

  6. [encore] 562: The Lonely Humans

    Published: 12/28/2022

  7. [encore] 685: Trees at Night

    Published: 12/27/2022

  8. [encore] 576: Taking Down the Tree

    Published: 12/26/2022

  9. [encore] 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal

    Published: 12/23/2022

  10. [encore] 584: Marte

    Published: 12/22/2022

  11. [encore] 699: Photosynthesis

    Published: 12/21/2022

  12. [encore] 567: Besaydoo

    Published: 12/20/2022

  13. [encore] 511: Present Tense

    Published: 12/19/2022

  14. [encore] 575: How I Learned Bliss

    Published: 12/16/2022

  15. [encore] 622: Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway

    Published: 12/15/2022

  16. [encore] 692: Other Women's Babies

    Published: 12/14/2022

  17. [encore] 547: Travel

    Published: 12/13/2022

  18. [encore] 665: Metro-North

    Published: 12/12/2022

  19. [encore] 665: Metro-North

    Published: 12/12/2022

  20. [encore] 559: Parable of Childhood

    Published: 12/9/2022

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Host Maggie Smith is your daily poetry companion. Poetry is one of the greatest tools we have to wield our own attention — to consider our own lives and the lives of others, to help us live creatively and compassionately, to use that attention to lean into wonder, and joy, and truth, and to find hope — to keep hoping. The Slowdown community knows that reflecting on a poem, every weekday, can connect us to our inner world and the world around us. Listen as you make your morning coffee, as you go on a walk in your neighborhood, as you pull away from the to-do list, as you resist the dismal, endless scroll to share five minutes of perspective through the lens of poetry, from poets old and new, well-loved and emerging onto the scene. Brought to you by American Public Media, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.